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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2007: Death Valley National Park bikepacking / Day 6, morning: A walk down upper Monarch Canyon to Monarch Spring for drinking water /

Having now seen the entire stream from Monarch Spring, I start walking back and stop at the best spot that I saw for pumping water

mc1-000005-stream-location.jpg Looking down the 100-foot drop-off at the end of the Monarch CanyonThumbnailsThe stream from Monarch Spring should provide fairly decent drinking water once filteredLooking down the 100-foot drop-off at the end of the Monarch CanyonThumbnailsThe stream from Monarch Spring should provide fairly decent drinking water once filteredLooking down the 100-foot drop-off at the end of the Monarch CanyonThumbnailsThe stream from Monarch Spring should provide fairly decent drinking water once filteredLooking down the 100-foot drop-off at the end of the Monarch CanyonThumbnailsThe stream from Monarch Spring should provide fairly decent drinking water once filteredLooking down the 100-foot drop-off at the end of the Monarch CanyonThumbnailsThe stream from Monarch Spring should provide fairly decent drinking water once filtered

My chosen location is close to the end of the canyon, where the brush is low, and the stream at its widest and deepest.